Is it a Pedigree? Obscure markings? Ask the "Experts" 5 5

[sacentaur]

6 hours ago, Robot Man said:

Interesting, the Hit and the Marvel Mystery appear to be similar distributor markings...

My Marvel Mystery 16 has the same distributor marking as those two books, but with staple holes:

 

[Yorick]

6 hours ago, woowoo said:

From the Aunt Clara collection

 

Is that Aunt Clara? Way to go Carl!

[bounty_coder]

Listing a few markings I've come across while going through my books.

"A" Grease Pencil...

[bounty_coder]

Looks like a "ME"

[bounty_coder]

"P" Stamp

[bounty_coder]

"S"

[bounty_coder]

This one is difficult to make out.  I have seen this on a few other books prior but cannot place it in my head.

"O 9/2" ?

Edited October 1, 2019 by bounty_coder
O 9/2?

[OtherEric]

27 minutes ago, bounty_coder said:

This one is difficult to make out.  I have seen this on a few other books prior but cannot place it in my head.

"O 9/g" ?

Looks like it might be a 2 with a trailing line, not a g, to me.  On sale September 2nd?  

[Cat-Man_America]

On 9/28/2019 at 4:24 PM, sacentaur said:

My Marvel Mystery 16 has the same distributor marking as those two books, but with staple holes:

 

I'm not claiming any kind of hand writing expertise, but it appears all three of these books were handled by the same distributor as the "M" has a very unique signature style that starts from the right, moves left then crosses through the letter.  As for the staple holes, that's a head scratcher.  

It looks like someone stapled a note on MM#16, but being that the HIT is from a different publisher my suspicion is that none of these are File Copies.  

[bounty_coder]

1 hour ago, OtherEric said:

Looks like it might be a 2 with a trailing line, not a g, to me.  On sale September 2nd?  

I think that you may be right.  Definitely looks more like a 2 and seems way more logical 

[Tri-Color Brian]

These two Batman's were purchased in 1966 from Cherokee Bookshop in Hollywood.  Burt had a whole box of $1 Batman Comics, so I bought a few.  The others have been sold over the years, but I noticed a few years ago that both of these have the same arrival markings.  I wish I had known enough to ask Burt where he got these books.  I'm sure there are others with these markings...in fact, maybe Robotman has some...

[Marty Mann]

A large portion of the comics I bought between the years of 1943 to 1946 came from a newsroom on Bloomfield Avenue

in Newark, NJ...they all where marked with an "N" which I didn't  noticed at the time.

 

Edited October 2, 2019 by Marty Mann

[Robot Man]

22 hours ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

These two Batman's were purchased in 1966 from Cherokee Bookshop in Hollywood.  Burt had a whole box of $1 Batman Comics, so I bought a few.  The others have been sold over the years, but I noticed a few years ago that both of these have the same arrival markings.  I wish I had known enough to ask Burt where he got these books.  I'm sure there are others with these markings...in fact, maybe Robotman has some...

I probably do but have never noticed. I was primarily buying ECs and PCH not DCs at the time.

[MusterMark]

On 9/28/2019 at 11:03 AM, MrBedrock said:

Dang Harold. That is quite the piano bench!

More importantly, ahem, next to the piano bench are a whole bunch of keys .....

[Cat-Man_America]

1 hour ago, MusterMark said:

More importantly, ahem, next to the piano bench are a whole bunch of keys .....

Any good grader would also pay attention to the quality of the spine.

[BB-Gun]

I thought my Superman 6 might be from a pedigree collection due to the "PN" on the cover.  What do you think?

[BB-Gun]

dates?

[telerites]

2 hours ago, BB-Gun said:

dates?

The 8-9 coincides with the appr. on sale date according to Mike's Amazing World of Comics

Comic Title: Batman #24
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1944
Approx. On Sale Date: June 9, 1944 
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

[buttock]

3 hours ago, BB-Gun said:

I thought my Superman 6 might be from a pedigree collection due to the "PN" on the cover.  What do you think?

There were some Larson's with a PN code (also ON), but I've seen a number of other books with PN.  IIRC it was for the distributor "publisher's news", but don't quote me on that. 

[BB-Gun]

I used to have several books previously owned by Joyce.  Suspense 3 was one of them.  Anyone else have any?